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Later that night two hikers showed up in exhaustion and pitch their tent in front of the shelter (which is technically against the park's rule) and proceed to sleep for the night.


This is off topic, but, I don't understand why anyone would do that anyway. Why would you hike through miles of forest with a tent strapped to your back and set it up in front of an occupied shelter?

Is it against the rules to camp anywhere you want along the AT (aside from the common rules about streams or private land)?

If I was close by, and knew a big storm was coming, then I might go to a shelter. Of if I knew it was not going to be occupied and was in a really cool spot, but otherwise that'd be about the last place I'd want to camp for the night.

Of course, I don't understand lot's of things smile
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